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The Stock market crashes on Black Tuesday. This is the beginning of the great depression.
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The first Mickey Mouse comic strip appears in the New York Mirror newspaper
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Frankenstein is released across theaters in the US
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Adolf Hitler becomes the chancellor of Germany.
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King Kong appears in theaters. A giant mechanical ape shares the spotlight with Fay Wray.
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The Twenty-First Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment. Alcohol was legal again.
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A drought that killed all grass in the Southern states. High winds picked massive amounts of topsoil. Blowing everywhere in the South.
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The 1936 Winter Olympic Games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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My grampa is born today
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The first issue of Superman is published.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is released, it is the highest grossing film of the decade.
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My grandma was born today!
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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbech is published.
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Franklin Roosevelt is the first and last president to be elected for the third time. The election and WW II was considered the end of the Great Depression